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Into the Jaws of Death : ウィキペディア英語版 | Into the Jaws of Death
''Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death'' is a historic photograph taken on June 6, 1944, by Robert F. Sargent, a chief photographer's mate in the United States Coast Guard. It depicts U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division soldiers disembarking from a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings in World War II. ==Background== The photograph was taken by Chief Photographer's Mate Robert Sargent during the troop landing phase of Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Operation Overlord Normandy landing commonly known as ''D-Day''. Neptune was the largest combat operation performed by the United States Coast Guard in American history. The Higgins Boat depicted in the photograph had departed from the attack transport about from the coast of Normandy at around 5:30 AM. Waves continuously broke over the boat's square bow, and the soldiers inside were drenched in cold ocean water.〔 The photograph was taken at 7:40 AM local time. It depicts the soldiers departing the Higgins boat and wading through waist-deep water towards the "Easy Red" sector of Omaha Beach.〔 In all the Chase lost six landing crafts that day; four foundered near the beach, one was “impaled” by a beach obstacle, and another sunk by enemy gunfire.〔
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